Re: smbd (2.0.6) fails with 2.3.99-pre3

From: Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 14:26:21 EST


On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:10:50PM +0100, Anton Schegg wrote:
> Hello,

> I'm trying to start smbd under the 2.3.99-pre3 kernel. If booting 2.3.48
> smbd runs fine with exactly the same configuration. The following is the
> error output of log.smb:

> [2000/03/25 12:57:48, 1] smbd/server.c:main(643)
> smbd version 2.0.6 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [2000/03/25 12:57:48, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(667)
> Can't create or use IPC area. Error was Invalid argument
> [2000/03/25 12:57:48, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174)
> ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes

> Any ideas?

        Yeah... If you went straight from 2.3.48 to 2.3.99* without
stopping at any other version, I can take a good guess...

        In either 2.3.50 or 2.3.51 they changed some shared memory
initialization stuff and now you need to "mount" the shm file system.

        Add the following line to your /etc/fstab file:

        none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0

        Make the /var/shm directory and then run "mount /var/shm" and
shared memory should now work. If you chose a directory other than
/var/shm, you have to change some kernel tunning parameters in /proc,
so you can't just plug it in any which where. By adding it to /etc/fstab,
you'll get it mounted properly when you boot up.

        My guess is that this will fix your smbd problem since that's
what's failing.

> Anton Schegg

        Mike

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